Do I have to file at home while living in Ireland?
For most people the answer turns on whether the ties that made them resident have actually ended. For a US citizen or green-card holder it does not: the return is due in Ireland exactly as it would be at home. Everything else on the file follows from which of those you are.
Is there a treaty between my country and Ireland?
Treaty networks change with each protocol and each multilateral-instrument position, so we confirm the treaty in force for your specific year with the issuing authority rather than relying on a published summary. Where there is none, unilateral relief and domestic law do the work instead.
I own property in Ireland. Where is the rent taxed?
In Ireland, because that is where the property sits. The complication is the base: gross-rent withholding takes no account of mortgage interest, tax or repairs, so a leveraged property can face tax on turnover. An election onto net profit, where it exists, is what fixes that — and it has its own timing.
Do I still file in Canada if I work from Dublin?
Residence decides it, not the address on your payslip. Canada looks at the ties you kept — a home available to you, where your family lives, where your everyday accounts and belongings sit — and then at the treaty tie-breaker if both countries treat you as resident under their own rules. Taking your laptop to Dublin does not by itself end Canadian residence, and a good many people in this position are resident in both places on domestic rules until the treaty is applied to the facts. Settle the question in writing before the first return goes in, because the return you file is itself evidence of the position you have taken.
Does my US employer have to run Irish payroll for me?
That is an employer question rather than an employee one, and it is decided by where the work is physically done rather than where the company sits. An employer with someone working in Ireland has to establish whether it must register there and operate withholding on that person's pay, and separately whether the person's duties raise a question about the company itself having a taxable presence. Neither follows automatically from one employee. Both are answered from the contract, the duties actually performed and the pattern of time spent. The answer matters to you as well, because your own return is built on whichever position the employer adopts.
What does non-domiciled mean for tax in Ireland?
Ireland runs three separate tests where most countries run one: residence, ordinary residence and domicile. Residence is about presence, ordinary residence about a settled pattern of it, and domicile about where your permanent home lies in the deepest sense — usually the country you were born into, and hard to displace by moving. The three combine to decide which foreign income and gains fall inside the Irish charge at all, which is why a person can be resident in Ireland and still outside the charge on certain foreign income. It is a position established from documents and history, not an assumption, and it should be written down before it is relied on.
Do Americans living in Ireland still have to file US returns?
Yes. US filing follows citizenship, so moving to Ireland changes what goes on the return and the relief claimed, not whether the return exists. The reliefs for income earned abroad and for foreign tax paid are claimed on the return itself, which means a year with no US tax due is still a year with a return to file. Separately, the Irish accounts you opened to be paid into and to pay rent from are foreign financial accounts, and FBAR reporting runs on its own track with its own filing, independent of what tax is owed. People tend to find the second obligation late, and it is the more expensive one to find late.
Can I be taxed twice on the same salary in Ireland?
In the sense of paying twice and keeping nothing back, no — that is what the treaty and the foreign tax credit rules exist for. In the sense of two payroll systems deducting from one salary for a period, very often yes, because payroll collects first and reconciles afterwards. The repair is mechanical rather than clever. Establish the residence position, work out which country has the first claim on that employment income, then claim the credit or the refund in the other one. The order matters. A credit claimed before the residence position is settled usually produces a second correction later.
How long can I work from Ireland before my taxes change?
There is no single day count that settles it, and treating one as the whole answer is the common mistake. Day counts matter, but so does the pattern of your presence across several years, whether a home is available to you in each country, where your family is, and what your employer does about payroll while you are there. A short project and an open-ended move can look identical on a calendar and be quite different in a file. Keep a contemporaneous record of arrival and departure dates and of where the work was done, from the first month. Reconstructing it two years later out of flight confirmations is the part clients like least.
I have not filed for several years while living abroad — what are my options?
Both countries have routes back, and using one before they contact you is what preserves the relief. On the US side there are procedures aimed at taxpayers whose failure was not wilful, including one designed for people living outside the country, and separate procedures for late account reports and information returns alone. Canada has its voluntary disclosures programme and taxpayer relief for penalties and interest. Filing quietly and hoping is the one approach with no protection attached to it. See catch-up filing.
How do I claim the foreign tax credit?
You report the foreign income, the foreign tax paid on it and the category it falls into, then compute the limit — the credit cannot exceed your own country's tax on that same income. You need evidence the foreign tax was actually paid or accrued, not merely withheld on paper. The form differs by country: Form 1116 in the US, T2209 and T2036 in Canada, Form 67 in India, and the Indian form must be filed before the return. See Form 1116.
